The Time Machine
H.G Wells
Penguin Classics, 2005, 90pp., $9.00
ISBN 978-0-141-43997-6
“In a moment I was clutched by several hands, and there was no mistaking that they were trying to haul me back.”
The Time Machine by H.G. Wells is a classic sci-fi novel all readers above the age of ten will enjoy. In 19th century London, a mad scientist propels himself forward into the year 802,701 AD, a world much different than his own. There the Time Traveler, as he is know through out the book, befriends the entrancing elfin-race, who are decedents of the human race, called Eloi. They’re weak and childishly afraid of the dark, so the Time Traveler is led to believe that they’re decedents of a once great culture. But he soon discovers he to should fear the dark because lurking under their paradise world in a network of dark tunnels are the Morlocks, a carnivorous race waiting for the cover of night to hunt for more Eloi. When the Time Traveler’s time machine vanishes it becomes clear he must search these sinister tunnels if he is ever to return to his own era.
I recommend The Time Machine to anybody who gets pleasure from reading about endurance, loss, and overcoming a fear. I usually dislike sci-fi novels but this one I really enjoyed because it was more of an adventure. Wells’ writing lets readers thoroughly understand what each character is thinking and feeling throughout the book, and makes you turn every page faster than the one before- like it has done for generations of readers.
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The Time MachineH.G Wells
Penguin Classics, 2005, 90pp., $9.00
ISBN 978-0-141-43997-6
“In a moment I was clutched by several hands, and there was no mistaking that they were trying to haul me back.”
The Time Machine by H.G. Wells is a classic sci-fi novel all readers above the age of ten will enjoy. In 19th century London, a mad scientist propels himself forward into the year 802,701 AD, a world much different than his own. There the Time Traveler, as he is know through out the book, befriends the entrancing elfin-race, who are decedents of the human race, called Eloi. They’re weak and childishly afraid of the dark, so the Time Traveler is led to believe that they’re decedents of a once great culture. But he soon discovers he to should fear the dark because lurking under their paradise world in a network of dark tunnels are the Morlocks, a carnivorous race waiting for the cover of night to hunt for more Eloi. When the Time Traveler’s time machine vanishes it becomes clear he must search these sinister tunnels if he is ever to return to his own era.
I recommend The Time Machine to anybody who gets pleasure from reading about endurance, loss, and overcoming a fear. I usually dislike sci-fi novels but this one I really enjoyed because it was more of an adventure. Wells’ writing lets readers thoroughly understand what each character is thinking and feeling throughout the book, and makes you turn every page faster than the one before- like it has done for generations of readers.
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